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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 4995045" data-attributes="member: 4475">1. Most materials are only developed using core assumptions or campaign-specific assumptions; neither taint nor shadow elementals are even remotely core (in fact, even though I remember seeing them, I have no idea which book they're in - I would guess Heroes of Horror for taint, but shadow could be in any number of books). Since my campaigns do not use these elementals, and they will never appear in any of my campaigns, it's a non-issue for me. If you would like to use the spell in your campaigns, I guess it depends on how you treat shadow and taint elementals (which plane do they come from? can they be broken down into smaller "quasi-elements?")2. As I stated, the spell needs some rewording to divorce it from the negative energy aspect. Disintegrate was the model, only made more specific (in the sense that it works only on elementals). Since the target is "one elemental object or creature," and creatures are not objects, then it doesn't work on creatures other than elementals. More specifically, the target should be "one object composed mostly of a single element or one creature of the Elemental type," but that's way too long and completely unnecessary in my games (which this spell is for). Incidentally, there are loads of spells that deal what is effectively negative energy damage which have no specific effect on undead.3. Small is a defined size category (although it normally applies to creatures, I don't see why it couldn't apply to objects as well). Thus, a small boulder is a about the size of a halfling, gnome, or goblin.</blockquote>

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